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A rock 'n' roll life, written in real time. From punk's raw rebellion to the deep soul of Delta blues, from backstage chaos to dance-floor epiphanies, My Life Under Deadline chronicles four decades in the trenches of music journalism. Veteran writer Cree McCree didn't just cover the scene-she lived it. Riding in vans, haunting dive bars, chasing the magic from New York to New Orleans to Mississippi, McCree brings readers inside the world of the musicians who shaped the sound of our times.With the unfiltered immediacy of on-the-ground reporting and the perspective of a survivor-of the industry, the road, and a life-threatening illness-McCree's collected stories are as alive and unpredictable as the artists she champions: John Campbell, Marianne Faithfull, Mick Taylor, Roky Erickson, Jessie Mae Hemphill, and many more. Equal parts cultural history, personal memoir, and love letter to the music that gives life meaning, My Life Under Deadline is a vivid, deeply human portrait of a woman who followed the beat wherever it led-and is still dancing.

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‟Cree followed the bands, she lived their lives. A life chosen, a song revealed. How absolutely authentic Cree is to rock.”—Rickie Lee Jones ‟Cree McCree was the very first journalist to even remotely understand what my band & I were doing, and her enthusiasm inspired us to manifest our dream. They say good journalists try not to become part of the story, but the better ones wind up affecting so much around them that the story is shared.” —John Popper, Blues Traveller ‟Cree interviewed me for Us Weekly and got a whole lot of lusty truth out of me. For such a light easy breezy touch she digs deep and gets right to the heart of the matter.” —Pamela Des Barres, author of I'm with the Band

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Cree McCree is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in Details, Spin, High Times, Us Weekly, No Depression, DownBeat, Oxford American, Please Kill Me, Rolling Stone, and many other national outlets. The author of Flea Market America: A Complete Guide to Flea Enterprise, she currently lives in New Orleans, where she makes wearable assemblage art and runs a lively art and flea market when she’s not out dancing or hunched over her keyboard.

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